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July 19, 2016 - Available research suggests that noninvasive stimulation of a specific brain area can reduce food cravings -- particularly for high-calorie, appetitive foods, according to a review in the Psychosomatic Medicine Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine , the official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer. However, there s not yet consistent evidence to show that brain stimulation can reduce actual ...

Diabetes is a global epidemic and a leading cause of disease and death. The fact fewer than half of patients with type 2 diabetes have their disease well controlled highlights the need for new, affordable, effective medications that are not limited by unfavorable side effects. Now, a pooled analysis of nine studies that examined the effect of oral aloe vera in people with diabetes and pre-diabetes suggests the medicinal plant should be further investigated ...

In discussing health care reform, it s easy to become mired in statistics and abstractions, so let s examine it in personal terms. Here s the story of a patient I saw recently that provides a specific example of what medicine does now -- and what, in my view, it must learn to do.

Peptide based drug candidates are being discovered at an increasingly rapid pace as therapeutics for many diseases and pain management. . For decades the opioid receptors have been an attractive therapeutic target for pain management and many endogenous opioid peptides have been known to produce opioid activity and analgesia. However, their therapeutic potential has been limited due to a major drawback regarding their use as CNS drugs, mainly due to a lack ...

Athens, Ga. - Medical marijuana is having a po sitive impact on the bottom line of Medicare s prescription drug benefit program in states that have legalized its use for medicinal purposes, according to University of Georgia researchers in a study published today in the July issue of Health Affairs . The savings, due to lower prescription drug use, were estimated to be 165.2 million in 2013, a year when 17 states and the District of Columbia had implemente ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Acupressure helped reduce persistent fatigue in women who had been treated for breast cancer, a new study finds. Fatigue is one of the most common long-term effects of breast cancer treatment. About a third of women experience moderate to severe fatigue up to 10 years after their treatment ends. The study, published in JAMA Oncology , found acupressure reduced fatigue by 27 percent to 34 percent over six weeks. Two-thirds of women who d ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Dance as a form of therapy - specifically Argentine Tango -- has the potential to significantly improve balance and reduce falls risk among cancer patients experiencing peripheral neuropathy, according to new research conducted by a multidisciplinary research team at The Ohio State University. The pilot study was funded by Pelotonia, a grassroots cycling event in Columbus, Ohio, that has raised more than 106 million for cancer research eff ...

A team of scientists at the University of Granada has used a next-generation genetic sequencing method and a technique known as Sanger sequencing to conduct a detailed genetic screening of patients in Granada suffering from Parkinson s disease. They conducted the study in collaboration with the Movement Disorders Unit from the Virgen de las Nieves and San Cecilio hospitals, as well as with researchers from the Institute of Neurology at University College L ...